Gnome and KDE sharing the same Desktop folder

Nicolas Mailhot Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net
Fri Dec 19 20:04:20 UTC 2003


Le ven 19/12/2003 à 19:11, Havoc Pennington a écrit :
> On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:50, =?iso-8859-1?B?QW5kcukgT3JpYW5p ?= wrote:
> > Hi, I'm new to the list, so I don't know if we have had some discussion about Gnome and KDE sharing the same Desktop folder on FC1.
> > I've used RedHat since version 8 , and always  these destop enviroments have differents directories for Desktop. I've upgrade to Fedora from RH9 an I got a mess!! Desktop items that mount a device from Kde don't work  in Gnome and 'vice-versa'.
> > I hope that in FC2 KDE and Gnome come back to use different folders.
> > 
> 
> That's the wrong fix; instead, the desktops need to be fixed not to
> screw up when the folder is shared. The folder name is an ISV API and a
> UI expectation and shouldn't be changing all the time.
> 

BTW, a lot of Gnomies use ~ as desktop, so while it's not the default
it's a popular value and DE developers should remember it.

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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